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minor key

–noun Music.
1. a key or mode based on a minor scale.
2. a less jubilant or more restrained mood, atmosphere, or quality: The conversation shifted to a minor key with news of the defeat.

Origin:
1810–20
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minor key

noun
a key based on the minor scale 
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